by S’ola Filani

A young man, Arinze Agwanze, who resides at 16 Ikogba Street, Monkey Village, Lagos, has done the unthinkable by gruesomely murdering his father and setting him ablaze.

Arinze is believed to be men­tally challenged but his neighbours claimed he butchered his father to death with a machete and went ahead to set his corpse and the entire house ablaze in an attempt to cover up his evil deed – so much for insanity claims.

Although neighbours claimed nobody knew what really trans­pired between Arinze and his father leading to the son’s actions, an eye witness told Sunday Sun that Arinze “has always been stubborn”.

“On the day of the incident, his father had sent him on an errand, but instead of attending to his father’s needs, he was busy pressing his phone. This got his father infuriated, prompting him to smash his son’s phone. This action of the father made Arinze angry and he in return smashed his father’s phone. Not done yet, the boy took a cutlass and attacked his father cutting his head in the process resulting in the man bleeding to death. When Arinze observed that his father was dead from the injuries he inflicted on him, he feared that he would be arrested and perhaps beaten up. To cover up, he quickly set the house with his late father’s body inside on fire and went into hiding to avoid the wrath of relatives and resi­dents.” the eyewitness narrated.

Neighbours’ attention were, however, drawn to the scene by the flaming fire and on getting to the house, they sighted the dead man with his skull ripped open and blood gushing out in the burn­ing house.

The suspect is currently on the run.

Also confirming the news, one of Arinze’s siblings said “I don’t believe whatever Arinze is say­ing to defend this tragedy that befell our household. At a young age, he had brain damage and it is not everybody that knows. It is only us members of his family that are aware of his situation. Whenever he gets upset, it’s always uncontrollable. It comes to him in a flash like an evil spirit. That he claimed that our father offended him is the one thing I don’t believe.”